Drugs and Astral Projection.

[Ben K]

hello everyone.

i was reading around the internet at work today when I came across an essay by Terence McKenna. I dont know if anyone here is familiar with his work but he has somep really interesting stuff. Anyway- i read this passage here-

I first experimented with DMT in 1965; it was even then a compound rarely met with. It is surprising how few people are familiar with it, for we live in a society that is absolutely obsessed with every kind of sensation imaginable and that adores every therapy, every intoxication, every sexual configuration, and all forms of media overload. Yet, however much we may be hedonists or pursuers of the bizarre, we find DMT to be too much. It is, as they say in Spanish, bastante, it's enough - so much enough that it's too much. Once smoked, the onset of the experience begins in about fifteen seconds. One falls immediately into a trance. One's eyes are closed and one hears a sound like ripping cellophane, like someone crumpling up plastic film and throwing it away. A friend of mine suggests this is our radio entelechy ripping out of the organic matrix. An ascending tone is heard. Also present is the normal hallucinogenic modality, a shifting geometric surface of migrating and changing colored forms. At the synaptic site of activity, all available bond sites are being occupied, and one experiences the mode shift occurring over a period of about thirty seconds. At that point one arrives in a place that defies description, a space that has a feeling of being underground, or somehow insulated and domed. In Finnegans Wake such a place is called the "merry go raum," from the German word raum, for "space." The room is actually going around, and in that space one feels like a child, though one has come out somewhere in eternity.

Now a couple things astonish me here.

1- The audio "hallucinations" at the onset of the trip. VERY similar to some of the exit sensations or phasing sensations.

2- Does anyone else think he describes Fz- 3d darkness- to a tee?

So, what do you guys think? Are drugs a way of perhaps inducing awareness-shifts? Or do you think these are stupid hallucinations? What are your theories on drugs? Im looking for alot of viewpoints so feel free to share- just dont drop any of that "drugs are bad yada yada".

[James S]

Sorry Ben, but this is a topic that has been done to death.

If you want to know what people think, please use the search tool.
We don't need yet another drugs thread.

James.